About the Author

Ajaykumar Guggilla is the holder of a masters in computer applications and is certified in Project Management Professional (PMP), information technology, and Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Expert, Microsoft Certified Professional, PRINCE2, and ServiceNow administrator. Ajay has 19 years of experience in the IT industry. Ajay started his career as a hardcore programmer and evolved to take on many positions at reputable organizations, including Cognizant, PwC, and Sathyam. Ajay has persified his experience to include IT service delivery, IT infrastructure, enterprise systems, improving quality and maturity, CRM solutions, adopting service management solutions, SAP support, data center migrations, IT Service Management (ITSM)/ITIL, and ServiceNow solutions.

His experience from previous job roles extends to program manager, IT architect, process owner, process lead, director, project manager, engagement manager, process manager, reporting champion, and global production. Ajay has worked with fortune customers in oil and gas, chemicals, automobiles and parts, healthcare, retail, media, travel and leisure, insurance, telecommunications, banks, media and entertainment, insurance, financial services, technology, and intergovernmental organizations.

His knowledge has helped many organizations, including defining the strategy, streamlining the service management process, optimizing the cost, adhering to compliances, increasing the customer satisfaction, process maturity, technology adoption, infrastructure transformation and consolidation, and much more.

Ajay started working with ServiceNow five years back. He has worked on different engagements in helping organizations select their service management tool, has managed ServiceNow programs, has solutioned, architected, and handled end-to-end implementations, and performed process automation and version migrations. He is passionate about working on ServiceNow and loves the product, which has lead him to write this book on ITOM, which will help inpiduals and organizations improve their operational excellence by implementing ITOM capabilities.